Daisy had her first day at puppy training. She was wonderful!
We adopted Daisy through San Antonio Pets Alive when they were hosted
by Petsmart. A couple of times a month they set up shop in the aisles
of Petsmart to find new homes for dogs and cats that have been saved from certain death
at kill-shelters.
In exchange for adopting a dog or cat at one of these events, Petsmart gives you a coupon book worth over $200.00 in
savings on supplies and food at Petsmart. Included was a $20.00 coupon
for their 6 week Training Course.
Since adopting Daisy, she has only been about ninety percent accident free, and we've discovered she has a shoe fetish. A training course? Let's try it, we thought. What could it hurt?
Daisy attended lesson one a couple of days ago. They presented us with a free bag of
training treats and a clicker. We learned about using a clicker to
reinforce good behavior.
Daisy seemed to understand the general concepts. Now we have to keep practicing and reinforce what we learned in the class at home. Apparently consistency is the trick to training. We even left the class with homework for Daisy to work on until our next training class.
Will this help us over-come her shoe fetish?
We'll have to wait and see!
Wish us luck!
Remember the Dukes of Hazard? The TV show from the late
70's with Bo and Luke Duke and the General Lee, the orange suped-up
Dodge Charger stock car? Well, I'm sure there's lots of men out there that still remember Cousin Daisy with the skimpy shorts and the legs that went on forever?
Well, meet the newest member of our family, a four-month old Lab mix,
Daisy. We got her yesterday when we went to PetSmart. I swear, we only
went there for cat food and cat treats. I imagine we must have looked
pretty funny walking out with this dog and box of cat food and bag of cat treat. People were probably thinking that we had no business owning a dog if we didn't even know how to feed it.
However, PetSmart was hosting a dog rescue organization named San Antonio Pets Alive. Several foster parents were there with puppies and dogs that they
had rescued from kill-shelters in the area. These people rescue these
abandoned or forgotten pets from being euthanized.
In some cases, they give medical attention and in most, they have to
work with the animals to get them ready to receive (hopefully) a new home.
Every time one of the puppies or dogs gets adopted, two animals are
saved because then the foster home has a space available to rescue
another animal. When we heard all this and saw the dog formerly known as
"Angie," we knew we just had to have her.
The foster mom told us that "Angie" had never really bonded with her
name so my husband picked the new name Daisy, even before we left
PetSmart. It brought back memories. As a teen-aged girl, I had spent
many a night dreaming of Bo and Luke Duke.
Isn't it funny how things in
everyday life can trigger memories long forgotten and take us back to
yesterday?
I've been calling her Daisy Duke ever since!
